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Would be interested in more detailed followup about the search. Anything in particular stands out?

Folks, can we simply uncheck option “[x] Show Bot Accounts” in new user profiles by default? (same as with “[x] Show NSFW”)

Firstly, I totally understand people who find reposts annoying and I have blocked few of those because they’re simply irrelevant to me

lemmit online / hackernews reposts

• those help drive inspiration for post making: I can snatch best ideas and post my own version on lemmy
  It’s especially helpful when you’re maintaining inactive community where you’re the only poster – since inactive subs are seen as dead ones.
• not my use case, but I see those instances as ability to combat FOMO for the users who just switched over to lemmy and getting used to its quirks. No need to snoop to reddit if its content is in your feed either way
  • mastodon got almost a dozen of such repost instances from twitter and it’s enormous bonus in transition from birdsite
• if you see lemmit online posts then someone on your instance wants this content/subscribed to it – it doesn’t appear out of nowhere

QoL bots

• tldr bots are generally helpful for long reads\vids and I wish they would be available as option on post creation page
• bots for linking to invidious instances / archive.ph nonpaywalled articles: just saves time

P.S. as a bonus here’s a page about bots that wikipedia uses to streamline and automate work Wikipedia bots - Wikipedia

User of those bots here:

I think this whole problem stems from the lack of tools to configure bot experience. On mastodon, for example, bots can post “unlisted” posts – which don’t show up in the main feed. Only subscribed people receive their posts. On Lemmy there’s no such privacy toggle and admins are forced to shoot a fly with cruise missiles – by defederating instances

I’d understand if you folks decide to defederate from bot instances however I’d urge you to escalate this discussion upstream to LemmyNet github for following features

• post privacy i.e. intended reach
• moderation tools to handle bots activity en masse

This would be far more lasting impact on quality of global fediverse feed and efficient use of admins’ time IMO

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I mean automobile industry players? Anyone else just don’t have the capital to “invest heavily”

lemmit.online ?

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